Federal Indian Law I (Law Students or AIS students) or AIS 584-Development of Federal Indian Law & Policy (required for AIS students and other graduate students), or permission of instructor.

Recommended Courses:

Overview

The course emphasis will be American Indian tribal governments, tribal courts, tribal peacemaking, tribal laws, and American Indian customary law, with a special focus on Navajo common law as a case study model. The instructor for the course is a retired Associate Justice of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court

This will be a traditional law school course, with lecture, discussion, speakers, and in-class presentations.

Written Assignments

No written assignments.

In-class projects: 1) Students will prepare arguments for in-class presentation on a case of major importance to Indian country; and 2) Students will be assigned a role which will be used to solve a problem in a peacemaking session.